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Alternative Census Designs: An Overview of Issues

This expert group meeting aims to review alternative census designs and analyze their applicability to countries at different levels of statistical development. It will address issues such as cost-effectiveness, data quality, privacy, and the use of IT. The meeting will also provide guidance on necessary revisions and additions to census principles and recommendations.

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Alternative Census Designs: An Overview of Issues

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  1. Expert Group Meeting to Review Critical Issues Relevant to the Planning of the 2010 Round of Population and Housing Censuses 15-17 September 2004 New York Alternative Census Designs: An Overview of Issues Social and Housing Statistics Section Demographic and Social Statistics Branch United Nations Statistics Division/DESA

  2. Basic characteristics of a traditional census • Individual enumeration • Universality within defined geographic entity • Simultaneous operation • Defined periodicity

  3. Concerns raised against traditional censuses • Prohibitive costs • Untimeliness of census results • Under-coverage • In some cases questionable data quality • Inflexibility

  4. Some alternative census designs • Register-based • Register/administrative records and sample surveys-based • Sample surveys-based • Traditional census supplemented by annual surveys

  5. Issues and questions pertaining to alternative designs • Is there a need to revisit the definition of census? • What are the necessary requirements for adopting alternative census designs? • To what extent do these designs meet the data needs of countries (for example, small area statistics, frames for surveys, difficult to enumerate populations)?

  6. Issues and questions pertaining to alternative designs (continued) • Are they really more cost-effective? • What implications do these alternative designs have in terms of privacy and confidentiality? • What are their implications vis-à-vis use of IT?

  7. Intercensal survey programme • In view of some of these designs, is there a need for an integrated intercensal household programme? • What are the implications of this at national and international levels?

  8. Review of Principles and Recommendations for censuses The Expert Group may wish to: • Critically analyse these designs and their applicability to countries at different levels of statistical development • Give guidance on aspects and areas which need to be reviewed and/or included in the Principles and Recommendations • Propose related activities, outputs and suggest a timeline in relation to the above.

  9. Thank you.

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